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Shelf-Iceberg and Snow petrel, North of Antarctic Peninsula

It covers about 98% of the Antarctic continent and is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. It covers an area of almost 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles) and contains 26.5 million cubic kilometres. That is, approximately 61% of all fresh water on the Earth is held in the Antarctic ice sheet, an amount equivalent to about 58m of sea-level rise.

Year: 2016

From album: Antarctic Biodiversity

Photographer: Peter Prokosch

Tags: Antarctica Arctic Atlantic Change Climate environmental fauna global Ocean Pacific Southern Worldwide

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